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  • News from West Bengal | 03 Oct, 2023 | ১৭ আশ্বিন, ১৪৩০
  • Odisha: As vigil on gun use increases, poachers use dogs to hunt prey animals in Similipal

    BHUBANESWAR: Similipal Tiger Reserve authorities said with joint squad of forest and police personnel keeping a strict vigil on use of weapons by poachers, some instances of dogs being used by villagers to hunt animals has come to the ...

    2 October 2023 Times of India
    Kolkata: Repair focus on oldest subway along Eastern Metropolitan Bypass

    KOLKATA: Lack of proper maintenance has left the pedestrian subway at Parama Island or Science City crossing, one of the busiest intersections on Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, in a shambles. While other subways that have come up in the recent ...

    2 October 2023 Times of India
    WB governor appoints 6 interim VCs, TMC questions legality of move

    KOLKATA: Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose on Sunday appointed interim VCs in 6 state-run universities, prompting education minister Bratya Basu to question the timing and legality of the move. SC is now in the process of deciding on ...

    2 October 2023 Times of India
    20-year-old dies of dengue, seventh victim in South Dum Dum this season

    KOLKATA: With dengue cases rising sharply in South Dum Dum, yet another death of a young girl early on Sunday - the seventh dengue victim in South Dum Dum Municipality - triggered a fresh panic in the neighbourhood. More ...

    2 October 2023 Times of India
    With 12 organ donations till September, West Bengal set to beat 2022 stats

    KOLKATA: Number of cadaver organ donations in Bengal is set to rise from 15 in 2022 to at least 18 to 19 this year - an increment which is encouraging but could have been better, felt experts at a ...

    2 October 2023 Times of India
    Rural Bengal reports more cases of dengue than urban areas

    KOLKATA: Dengue, typically seen as an urban disease, is alarmingly on the rise in rural Bengal, overtaking the number of cases in urban areas. Last week, of the 34,586 reported dengue cases in the state, 64% were from rural ...

    2 October 2023 Times of India
    Man kills wife in front of daughter, dies by suicide

    KOLKATA: A 32-year-old toto driver was found hanging and his wife lying with her throat slit in their bedroom at Sodepur's Patulia near Rahara off Kalyani Expressway on Sunday. Police said the couple's four-year-old daughter's cries from the bedroom ...

    2 October 2023 Times of India
    Puja parcel fraud: Cyber crooks target women

    KOLKATA: Police in Kolkata, Barrackpore and Barasat have come across multiple cases where women — some of them teachers, lawyers or with respectable jobs — are receiving extortion calls from cyber crooks after they are being informed of receiving ...

    1 October 2023 Times of India
    Denied train, TMC takes protesters to Delhi on 50 buses for two rallies

    Denied a special train a day before their journey, hundreds of Trinamool supporters and MGNREGS job card holders left here on 50 long-distance buses for Delhi to participate in two protest rallies. Party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee addressed ...

    1 October 2023 Times of India
    Kin found living with dead man in Kolkata

    KOLKATA: A woman and her 34-year-old son were found living with the body of the woman's husband - identified as Shankar Chakrabarty - for over 24 hours in their rented flat close to Sisir Bagan in Behala.This was almost ...

    1 October 2023 Times of India
    Kolkata: 19-year-old St Xavier's student dies in car crash on Maa flyover

    KOLKATA: A 19-year-old second-year student of St Xavier's College died and four of his friends were injured in a high-speed car accident on Maa flyover in the wee hours of Saturday. Nihar Agarwal, who was at the wheel, was ...

    1 October 2023 Times of India
    Late burst cuts deficit in Kolkata, 59.8mm rain on last September day

    KOLKATA: September bade adieu to the city with its final shower spell which helped reduce the monsoon rain deficit from 19% to 14% within a span of 24 hours. The 59.8 mm of rainfall recorded at Alipore on Saturday ...

    1 October 2023 Times of India
    Keep tabs on dengue ahead of pujas: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

    KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday asked heads of all municipal corporations, municipalities and panchayats to keep a close vigil on the dengue situation ahead of the festive season. In a virtual meeting on dengue management on Saturday, the ...

    1 October 2023 Times of India
    Rainy day floods neighbourhoods in south Kol & pockets in north

    KOLKATA: Several Kolkata neighbourhoods experienced bouts of waterlogging through Saturday as intermittent rain that began early in the morning continued all day. The city experienced two spells of heavy rains in the morning that flooded parts of south Kolkata ...

    1 October 2023 Times of India
    Class XI student this year’s first dengue victim in central Kolkata

    KOLKATA: A 17-year-old student has succumbed to dengue infection, making it the first known dengue death in central Kolkata during the current outbreak. Most dengue deaths in the city this year have so far been reported from the southern ...

    30 September 2023 Times of India
    5.4km pedestrian link, riverfront cafe & gallery proposal for Bagbazar-Chandpal Ghat stretch

    KOLKATA: In a bid to boost tourism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Economic Advisory Council member Sanjeev Sanyal has pitched a proposal for the redevelopment of a 5.4km stretch along the Hooghly - from Bagbazar to Chandpal-Babughat - for commercial ...

    30 September 2023 Times of India
    Kolkata Municipal Corporation plans new waiver scheme for tax dues

    KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is set to introduce a fresh incentive scheme to mop up tax dues. The civic body has proposed exemption on interest and penalty to those who clear entire dues within a specified period. ...

    30 September 2023 Times of India
    West Bengal extends stamp duty sops till June 30

    KOLKATA: The Bengal government has extended relief on stamp duty and registration fee for the sixth time. The extension will be up to June 30, 2024. The finance department had issued a circular on September 29 that considering the ...

    30 September 2023 Times of India
    Monsoon 2023 has 11 days to make up 19% shortfall in Kolkata, 11% in West Bengal

    KOLKATA: Kolkata and Bengal could end up with a monsoon rainfall deficit this year despite a 60% rain surplus in September and a low-pressure formation over the Bay of Bengal, which promises "enhanced rainfall" in the next few days.Officially, ...

    30 September 2023 Times of India
    30% of new public toilets in Kolkata to be reserved for women, 75 of these in CBD & shopping hubs

    KOLKATA: On the day President Droupadi Murmu gave her assent to the women's reservation bill that provides 33% reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and assemblies, Kolkata Municipal Corporation said it has decided to reserve 30% of the ...

    30 September 2023 Times of India
    Kolkata Metro introduces 'infotainment on wheels' for commuters

    KOLKATA: Kolkata Metro has launched an exciting initiative to enhance the daily commute for passengers. The North-South Metro's Medha rake now offers engaging infotainment content, including popular cartoon shows, on digital screens within the Metro cars.The move aims to ...

    29 September 2023 Times of India
    Youth missing after 'jumping into river' near Jagaddal

    KOLKATA: A 19-year-old youth, Pramod Chowdhury, went missing after allegedly jumping into the Hooghly near Jagaddal while he was on his way home from Chandernagore with two friends on Wednesday. His family lodged a complaint with cops alleging murder.The ...

    29 September 2023 Times of India
    Kolkata: 68-yr-old loses fight against dengue-malaria cross-infection

    KOLKATA: A 68-year-old man who had dengue and malaria co-infection died in a state-run hospital earlier this week. More than 20 dengue-related and three malaria deaths have been reported in Kolkata during this outbreak but this is the first ...

    29 September 2023 Times of India
    Wife's a Bangladeshi: Kolkata man files FIR 14 years after marriage

    KOLKATA: A city-based businessman living at Tiljala has filed an FIR and sought legal aid from the ministry of home affairs after discovering that his wife of 14 years is a Bangladeshi national with a fraudulent Indian passport. According ...

    29 September 2023 Times of India
    West Bengal: Current, ex-VCs among search panel nominees

    KOLKATA: The 15 names of senior academics proposed by the state, governor C V Ananda Bose and UGC includes current and past VCs. The Bengal government has proposed names of senior academics with a decade-and-a-half of experience as professors ...

    29 September 2023 Times of India
    Odisha DGP unveils mascot 'Cyrra' for cyber safety campaign

    BHUBANESWAR: Odisha director general of police, Sunil Kumar Bansal, on Thursday unveiled a mascot for a statewide awareness campaign on cyber safety that would be held from September 30 to October 15. Chief minister Naveen Patnaik is scheduled to ...

    29 September 2023 Times of India
    Assam: Three arrested for killing girl, then engaging in sexual acts with body

    KARIMGANJ(ASSAM): Three people, including a railway employee, were arrested on Thursday for allegedly strangling a teenage girl to death and then engaging in sexual acts with the body in Assam's Karimganj district, police said. The minor's body was found ...

    29 September 2023 Times of India
    93-yr-old loses 2-week fight with dengue

    Kolkata: A 93-year-old woman who had tested dengue positive about two weeks ago died at IPGMER on Tuesday. Sources said the nonagenarian was a resident from a south Kolkata locality. She was admitted to Sambhunath Pandit Hospital, which functions ...

    28 September 2023 Times of India
    KMC relays 2.6km of DH Road with plastic hot mix

    Kolkata: A solution for the battered stretches of Diamond Harbour Road is finally in sight as the KMC roads department, instead of doing patchwork, has taken up a thorough repair of a major stretch from Majherhat bridge to Kidderpore ...

    28 September 2023 Times of India
    RVNL gets CESC nod to raze Fountain of Joy

    Kolkata: RVNL has obtained the NOC from CESC to dismantle the Fountain of Joy, the three-tier water-light-and-sound attraction at the Maidan, which will temporarily disappear to make way for the Victoria station of the 14-km Joka-Esplanade corridor. It will ...

    28 September 2023 Times of India
    ‘Conditions favourable, 2023 an outbreak year’

    Kolkata: According to Peerless microbiologist Bhaskar Narayan Chaudhury, viruses like dengue strike at an interval and unfortunately this year happens to be an outbreak year. “Due to precautions taken during the pandemic and the fact that people were staying ...

    28 September 2023 Times of India
    Experts concerned as ‘khoka ilish’ floods mkts

    Kolkata: City markets on Wednesday morning were flooded with banned juvenile hilsa, each weighing 200g-300g. Netted by fishermen in Diamond Harbour and Digha, the arrival of over 100 tonnes of juvenile hilsa or khoka ilish in wholesale markets of ...

    28 September 2023 Times of India
    City records 24 fatal accidents in August

    Kolkata: The city has witnessed 24 fatal accidents in August, the highest this year, drawing the attention of the top brass that called for immediate review of these fatalities. A significant number of fatal accidents witnessed in the rainy ...

    28 September 2023 Times of India
    Keep road around civic HQ hawker-free: HC

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya on Wednesday questioned how the KMC, which was entrusted to ensure public places and streets are kept free of encroachment, allowed hawkers to encroach on the ...

    28 September 2023 Times of India
    Fake call centre duping Australians busted

    KOLKATA: The detective department recently raided a fake call centre that was spread over three floors at Chowringhee - in the heart of the city - which targeted senior citizens from Australia. A total of 40 employees, five of ...

    28 September 2023 Times of India
    Kolkata dengue cases till mid-Sept 2.5x more than '18 & '19 counts

    KOLKATA: The surge in dengue cases across Kolkata in the past month has taken the case count well past the 4000-mark, which is two and half times more than last year's count, according to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation health ...

    28 September 2023 Times of India
    KMC to start dengue helpline for real-time info on bed availability

    KOLKATA: Taking a cue from the experience of Covid management, the KMC health department has decided to start a helpline to give citizens real-time information on the admission status at government and private hospitals. It will also reserve beds ...

    28 September 2023 Times of India
    Rape plaint against Barrackpore ASI

    KOLKATA: An assistant sub-inspector of Basudebpur police station under Barrackpore police commissionerate has been accused of raping a 26-year-old woman he had reportedly befriended when she came to him to file a cheating complaint against a man who allegedly ...

    28 September 2023 Times of India
    Jadavpur University ragging case: Arrested students not to enter campus till acquitted of charges

    KOLKATA: In connection with the death of a Jadavpur University fresher, allegedly due to ragging and sexual molestation at the hostel, the university's executive council has made significant decisions. The 13 individuals arrested in connection with the incident, including ...

    27 September 2023 Times of India
    Give dengue, viral status report: State to colleges

    Kolkata: A day after TOI reported that the hostel campuses in the city are reeling under the grip of dengue and other viral infections, the state higher education department on Tuesday asked for astatus report regarding these diseases from ...

    27 September 2023 Times of India
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